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The reaching roots and vengeful vines forwarned of sleepless souls and mantic magics. For a moment I was frozen in fear, but i was freed by the heat of my heart. One step, two step towards trees that asunder. The path pollied me along, how a pixie sings her song begging me to listen, "This is your mission. Travel through the ever growing grove, for all is insane within the trees of Axebane." And then it came, an itch within my brain. I now stand where the ancient had lain. I had wished in the end to see my future clearer. I am left to wander with my mind but a broken mirror.

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I like the theme a lot, but I worry you just die to very much interaction. With access to blue, and being only in two colors, I think you could easily afford to lose a bunch of your creatures, a win-con or two, and Kodama's Reach to make room for card draw and counterspells, in addition to other answers. You're well positioned against most creature-based themes, but otherwise very vulnerable.

Another thing to point out is that your maybeboard Wall of Blossoms isn't modern-legal (unfortunately). Being in white and hiving Wall of Omens is basically equivalent. As you mentioned, Sphinx's Revelation solves a lot of your problems too. Cyclonic Rift is also a very viable option if you can make room for it.

+1 though, love these kinds of decks!

January 24, 2015
12:50 a.m.

I'm exciting to give the deck some play testing, thanks for the idea. I originally made this because a) I didn't have a green, my least favorite color and b) green is maybe the best way to get out eldrazi. If the sphinxes work well I'll keep the white in. Thanks a lot!

February 7, 2015
1:45 a.m.

February 7, 2015
10:44 a.m.

Lightning greaves can be attached to Emrakul once on the battlefield to get that first attack off a turn earlier which TYE doesn't provide. also the equip cost is free so i can move it from creature to creature freely to give many of them haste for their activated abilities. So I think the greaves are the better option. Thanks for the suggestion

February 7, 2015
7:35 p.m.

I kind of want to add a single Vent Sentinel so that when i use Genesis Wave on my whole deck, i get all the creatures, lands and auras because they are all permanents as well as Lightning Greaves and I can tap the vent for massive damage. I have 22 creatures with defender right now and I could untap him with Freed from the Reel. Damn, that sounds like a hell of a play :)

February 7, 2015
10:06 p.m.

It looks like you're trying to do too much here and that's going to cause you to not really accomplish anything at all. Try to focus on one thing to make your deck perform consistently, that's the key to modern.

April 15, 2017
10:17 a.m.

Yea, I been changing it a lot. Right now I've got defenders, things to dump infinite mana into, and some coverage. Figured if I had a more 'cover my bases' strategy I can be completely safe until I set off, casting my entire deck or doing infinite, unpreventable damage. Thinking about putting new X mana Nissa in this deck once released, maybe for Ludevic's Test SubjectFlip. You're right, I've been trying a lot of different ideas so specific suggestions would be great.

April 20, 2017
8:33 a.m.

May 7, 2017
11:07 a.m.

True, but I feel that would be a better strategy with Assault Formation to get some surprise creature kills, and here, I am more trying to infinite combo. With so much ramp I think Genesis Wave is better even if I don't play my whole library. Plus GenWave can hit Freed from the Real. But I digress, you could be right. There are a lot of different ways to make defender, hard to say what is best. I think the new Nissa is going to add wonders to this deck. I need to test it, but I might want 3 of em im thinking :D

May 8, 2017
3:04 a.m.

May 8, 2017
2:58 p.m.

Thanks for the suggestion. This deck has gone through some janky phases with some of the testing i've done lol but I've wanted to add CoCo and assault just to try it that way, I have playsets of both :D

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